]]>Nikkolas Smith is a Theme Park Designer & Concept artist at Walt Disney Imagineering, and Children’s Books Author/Illustrator. He is the author/illustrator the picture books “The Golden Girls of Rio” (nominated for an NAACP Image Award) and My Hair Is Poofy and That’s Okay. He also creates activist art paintings and Hollywood movie posters (Black Panther, Southside With You, Dear White People, Stranger Fruit). His works have been featured on TIME Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Buzzfeed, the Academy of Motion Pictures, The Guardian, ABC, NBC, KCET and many more. His art has been shared on social media by Van Jones, Shaun King, Viola Davis, Erykah Badu, Lupita Nyong’o, Kendrick Lamar, Tracee Ellis Ross, Ava Duvernay , Common , Simon Biles , Tessa Thompson, Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Williams, Amy Shumer and many others.

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He is a proud 2016 White House Innovators of Color fellow. His latest book Sunday Sketch: The Art of Nikkolas is a visual journey on life, a collection of more than 100 sketches he has done in the last five years. Nikkolas also talks for conferences (TEDxWatts) and schools all over the country, leads workshops in digital painting and movie poster and character design, and after hours on Saturday’s mentors kids in Compton & Watts, CA, giving art lessons and life skills for success. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

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]]>https://www.framefreakstudio.com/nikkolas-smith/Interview with Scott Wiser: Creating & Animating Layershttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrameFreak/~3/j-FyeYroXGE/
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:15:08 +0000https://www.framefreakstudio.com/?p=8367Scott Wiser is a character animator for Film, Games, TV and commercials. He has worked on projects such as Alvin & The Chipmunks 3, Chipwrecked, henchmen, Barbie Spy Squad, All Hail King Julien, Dreamwork’s Dragon’s Adventure (Video game) and more. (Be sure to watch the video interview below!) He has a bachelor in Art, English […]

]]>Scott Wiser is a character animator for Film, Games, TV and commercials. He has worked on projects such as Alvin & The Chipmunks 3, Chipwrecked, henchmen, Barbie Spy Squad, All Hail King Julien, Dreamwork’s Dragon’s Adventure (Video game) and more.

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He has a bachelor in Art, English and communications and has studied animation in the Chris Oatley Academy. He has an Animation Grand Prize from the National Broadcast Society, and he’s the single creator of his new animated short called “Layers”, An animated short film, Layers features a massive, weary traveler, who has to climb a steep mountain cove to find food. To climb, she has only her failing strength and her magical layers, which store her life’s most vivid memories.

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]]>https://www.framefreakstudio.com/scott-wiser-layers/Interview with Tiffanie Mang: Loving Vincent Painter Animatorhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrameFreak/~3/ovGVrcEqAQA/
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 04:30:10 +0000https://www.framefreakstudio.com/?p=7999Tiffanie Mang is an illustrator and plein air artist from San Diego. She has worked at the feature film “Loving Vincent” as a painter animator which was a 2018 Oscar Nominated Film for Best Animated Feature. She is now pursuing her passion for fine art in the US and has her own studio space for […]

]]>Tiffanie Mang is an illustrator and plein air artist from San Diego. She has worked at the feature film “Loving Vincent” as a painter animator which was a 2018 Oscar Nominated Film for Best Animated Feature. She is now pursuing her passion for fine art in the US and has her own studio space for her art called Studio 15.

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She fell in love with drawing and painting, taking art classes since the age of six. Tiffanie studied at the University of Southern California, graduating with a BA in Animation and Digital Arts in 2014. Aside from working in the animation industry as a freelance concept artist and illustrator, her biggest passion is plein air painting and painting landscapes in oils, and today she takes some time to talk about her experience as an artist.

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]]>https://www.framefreakstudio.com/tiffanie-mang-art/Interview with Nick Scarpino: Kinda Funny & Creative Workhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrameFreak/~3/LbhBjVRwG80/
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 08:39:07 +0000https://www.framefreakstudio.com/?p=7946Nick Scarpino is a broadcast and online media host, writer, and director. His work includes national television commercials, web series, live streaming broadcasts, online ad spots, digital short films, and semi-clever tweets. He is also a stand-up comedian, professional podcaster, and avid dog lover. He’s the producer of Kinda Funny and was the script writer […]

]]>Nick Scarpino is a broadcast and online media host, writer, and director. His work includes national television commercials, web series, live streaming broadcasts, online ad spots, digital short films, and semi-clever tweets. He is also a stand-up comedian, professional podcaster, and avid dog lover. He’s the producer of Kinda Funny and was the script writer for the Kinda Funny Animated Series.

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Today Nick Scarpino gives us a bit of his time to talk about his experience, his challenges, his best advice for creative people who want to build a career as a creative professional and how to deal with struggles, moments of doubts and his process for creating the best environment to create amazing shows every day.

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]]>https://www.framefreakstudio.com/nick-scarpino-kinda-funny/Interview with Sefra Orlick: Oni X Fox Kickstarterhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrameFreak/~3/7lkLmjRCfdA/
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 22:21:13 +0000https://www.framefreakstudio.com/?p=7828Sefra Orlick is a Character and Creature Designer and graduated from Woodbury University in Los Angeles California. She has Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation and has a focus in Comics and Stories. She’s also had a successful small Kickstarter campaign for her web comic Oni x Fox. (Be sure to watch the video interview […]

]]>Sefra Orlick is a Character and Creature Designer and graduated from Woodbury University in Los Angeles California. She has Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation and has a focus in Comics and Stories. She’s also had a successful small Kickstarter campaign for her web comic Oni x Fox.

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Now Sefra Orlick is launching her new Kickstarter campaign to launch the second volume of Oni X Fox and she comes back to tell us about her lessons and discoveries in the last year.

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]]>https://www.framefreakstudio.com/sefra-orlick-oni-x-fox-kickstarter/Interview with Matt Gaser: Professor Harkin Kickstarterhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrameFreak/~3/67OH4lGSSsw/
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 02:36:50 +0000https://www.framefreakstudio.com/?p=3778Matt Gaser is an award winning Illustrator and Visual Developer Artist who started his career designing backgrounds and props for Rugrats, stayed in the video game industry for 5 years working on projects such as Eragon, Forgotten Realms Demonstone, and Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers. Later on he went to work in Lucasfilm […]

]]>Matt Gaser is an award winning Illustrator and Visual Developer Artist who started his career designing backgrounds and props for Rugrats, stayed in the video game industry for 5 years working on projects such as Eragon, Forgotten Realms Demonstone, and Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers. Later on he went to work in Lucasfilm on the CG Animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and then he dedicated his life to being a freelancer and now he’s back to talk about his new project: the Professor Harkin Kickstarter.

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Matt Gaser loves toys and have been collecting them for a long time, it’s been an obsession of him and after many years of designing characters for movies and games he dreamed in creating his own toy and now he’s trying to make that dream real.

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]]>https://www.framefreakstudio.com/matt-gaser-prof-harkin-kickstarter/Interview with Kurt Chang: Character Animator & Painterhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrameFreak/~3/SVX9xBwgv_Y/
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 19:29:35 +0000https://www.framefreakstudio.com/?p=3756Kurt Chang started his studies of art under her grandmother in Taiwan using Chinese watercolor to do paintings where he learned the basics of art before even knowing that animation was a career. Then he began his professional training in Las Vegas Academy doing a visual arts program where he learned more about fine arts […]

]]>Kurt Chang started his studies of art under her grandmother in Taiwan using Chinese watercolor to do paintings where he learned the basics of art before even knowing that animation was a career. Then he began his professional training in Las Vegas Academy doing a visual arts program where he learned more about fine arts and learned many traditional methods for painting like oil, acrylic, watercolor and more. Then for four years he studied character animation and story art in the digital media department at Otis College Art & Design.

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Now he’s a freelance artist working from home and he keeps painting on the side for fun. Today Kurt shares with us his experience on learning animation and becoming a better artist and the transition from being a traditional painter to becoming an animator.

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]]>https://www.framefreakstudio.com/kurt-chang/Interview with Channing Winget: Illustrator & Toy Designerhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrameFreak/~3/yiW_VJoYmy4/
Sat, 27 Jan 2018 03:17:18 +0000https://www.framefreakstudio.com/?p=3708Channing Winget has a BFA in Illustration from Brigham Young University in Idaho, she’s been doing art since she was little, however in her path she joined a Pokemon Community in which they were making plushies about Pokemons, and she started doing that as well and started to make commissions and sell them and then […]

]]>Channing Winget has a BFA in Illustration from Brigham Young University in Idaho, she’s been doing art since she was little, however in her path she joined a Pokemon Community in which they were making plushies about Pokemons, and she started doing that as well and started to make commissions and sell them and then it evolved naturally to making her own designs and selling them online and having her own small business about that.

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In this interview Channing Winget talks about the challenges that she faced when trying to create products to satisfy a bigger demand without losing quality, how she solved those challenges and how illustrators can create an income by creating a secondary product from their own creations.

In this Episode, You Will Learn:

Actionable Steps

People need to get over of this “sellout” thing, people need to make a living, and if they do from their art is not being a sellout, is making a living.

Beware of burning out when working too heavily on one project, be sure to have other projects or things to help you distract yourself and not be too involved in one.

People limit themselves too much, either with the medium they use, the subject of their art, the audience they look for, people don’t experience and branch out enough, test things, learn more, explore more.

Post your stuff online, start to make a following, be honest about the people who you want buying your stuff and who you’re making art for and post a lot, post often.

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]]>https://www.framefreakstudio.com/channing-winget/Interview with Tatyana Mitkova: Co-Founder of ClaimCompasshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrameFreak/~3/BamkIxNMReY/
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 01:02:34 +0000https://www.framefreakstudio.com/?p=3673Tatyana Mitkova is a Bulgarian entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of ClaimCompass, a company that helps you get money back from airlines if your flight has been delayed or canceled. She has traveled to many countries and been the winner of many entrepreneurship competitions leading up to be one of the selected startups to be chosen […]

]]>Tatyana Mitkova is a Bulgarian entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of ClaimCompass, a company that helps you get money back from airlines if your flight has been delayed or canceled. She has traveled to many countries and been the winner of many entrepreneurship competitions leading up to be one of the selected startups to be chosen by 500 Startups, one of the best incubators of the world, where she received $150,000 and was mentored in Mountain View, California by many great entrepreneurs from small to huge companies.

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Tatyana Mitkova covers in this interview the several benefits that comes from thinking about projects in the entrepreneurial way. We decided to interview her to show the tools available to all of us in the world as many people don’t even know that incubators or accelerators exists such as Y Combinator or 500 Startups, which can be a huge help when creating your own project and making things happen faster.

Actionable Steps

Start working as soon as possible on your projects, try to travel, try to explore, take internships, take jobs, gain as much experience as possible, don’t keep on thinking about it.

Try to communicate your idea as best as possible, be really clear in about 2 minutes, and don’t be afraid of being rejected, keep trying over and over.

Even if you find the right people to work with, you have to keep that going, you need to maintain the same goal and high spirits through the challenges for a long time, when people fall into different paths, that’s when partnerships start to fail.

Go to events and participate in them, pitch your idea, find the people who want to invest in it, find the people who will be your customers, just don’t overdo it, remember that you have to work on your business as well.

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]]>https://www.framefreakstudio.com/tatyana-mitkova-claim-compass-eu/Interview with Chrystin Garland: Animator & Visual Developerhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrameFreak/~3/r2bhojOvPRw/
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 04:27:37 +0000https://www.framefreakstudio.com/?p=3648Chrystin Garland is a visual development artist from Los Angeles, currently working at DreamWorks TV Animation. In the past, she has had the pleasure of working on the Emmy Award Winning “Niko and the Sword of Light” as well as the “Steven Universe and the Crystal Gems” series and now she’s involved in “Harvey Street […]

]]>Chrystin Garland is a visual development artist from Los Angeles, currently working at DreamWorks TV Animation. In the past, she has had the pleasure of working on the Emmy Award Winning “Niko and the Sword of Light” as well as the “Steven Universe and the Crystal Gems” series and now she’s involved in “Harvey Street Kids” which is the next series from DreamWorks for Netflix.

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Chrystin Garland started as a manga and anime enthusiast and started drawing since she was very young, when she discovered animation she knew that’s what she wanted to be and had a good circle of friends who supported her through all the years. After she studied for Traditional Animation the crash happened and she had to adapt very fast to the new needs of the animation industry.

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